free. to type free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects free media don carty dot com. this week's top stories here on r.t. airport tragedy a passenger jet slams into a russian highway killing full overshooting the runway with survivors now find some for their lives. president obama's call for a ban on some firearms sparks a massive shopping spree in the u.s. with gun stores reporting record profits. with no end in sight to the syrian conflict the rebels desperate push for regime change and rejection of dialogue raises international phase of the push that is yet to come. moscow hits washington with counter legislation after the u.s. slapped sanctions on russian officials it accuses of human rights violations.

good morning welcome you're watching r.t. live from moscow with me. four people have died and four others are in a critical condition after a passenger jet crash landed at a moscow airport the plane is said to have overshot the runway splintering into pieces and littering an outgoing highway with debris with an investigation into the crash now in full swing we can cross live to. the new port. but you know it is early days at the moment but at what stage is the investigation. well as you just sat the investigation as will in full swing this this is the second and the biggest purge of the plane that still remains very close to the

highway and looks very terrifying but the other person the plane in particular the cabin that through right on the highway after the crash and where four crew members died as well as a b. a black boxes have been cleared over at the night and now the investigation is working with the data on the black boxes meanwhile there is also a video that captured the exact moment how this is just present your plane crashed into the highway and that video appeared on the internet over the night meanwhile there are three main gershon's why this tragedy happened now these versions are weather conditions pilot error and possible topical problems with the plane and particular there are reports that there might be in something wrong with the plane's braking system that's why it couldn't stop while being on the runway so the

investigation is underway. but we understand at least four people have died and four are fighting for their lives three know any more about their condition. right out of eight crew members of course of five but all are in critical condition the witnesses those dry. average work cop church of by a crash in their own cars sad that you are right after the crash the scene the look devastating and terrifying. the passengers not to be a soul all of those survivors own board of the plane were all covered and blogs and were in critical condition and they were in such a critical condition that people who rushed to help the survivors didn't even know how to approach the with the first help as they were afraid not to hurt them even more we can now listen to one of the witnesses and what he had to say. i saw one

woman well covered in blood it was the flight attendant christina she said that the plane overshot the runway but they weren't carrying any passengers and that there is another surviving flight attendant there the rescue unit came very proud but the ambulance couldn't get through because of the traffic so we gave the injured flight attendant first aid to our best knowledge called her mother to tell her she was ok strapped her womanly language and clothing we could find and they even found a car to take her to hospital but. there's also video that captured at the exact moment when one of the flight attendants was taking out of the pain now the woman wasn't conscious she was all covered in blood and she was visibly seriously injured meanwhile people who rushed to help this virus onboard of those planes did that one price of the plane were still on fire and there was a risk of a possible explosion this plane to pull up to four are too old for excuse me is

a possum to play with the capacity to carry two hundred and tonto pos interest and that particular plane belonged to a russian low cost rep wing. ok thanks for the update meeting and let some of the mc parties correspondent at the new airport. well martin message here is an airline pilot says it's still too early to tell but pilot error may have well been the course. mr geisha will hold now. two different avenues of approach they're looking at technical failure such as discussion a ready a rising amongst pilots about failure with the weight on we all switches which are basically designed stoop to let your guard know all once it's made from touchdown so well the braking systems could be fully deployed or or possibly into pilot error

now this is still very early after jackson and speaker of the actual cause of the accident but there was an empty air character or a overruns the runway in weather that i have to say was not as severe as it was originally thought we just saw a little bit of a cross wind and some snow but nothing major then you have to wonder what happened was this were the pilots able to recover this and missed something or was those completely beyond help. well there are more pictures and eyewitness accounts from the scene on our website where you can also find out more about the plane itself that is at. dot com. fails like done business in the us has never been better with people rushing to still is fairing firearms may seem become i think big in front of the barack obama urged a ban on some weapons following the connecticut primary school tragedy. and takes up the story. about two weeks ago actually on this particular wall here. we are as

four rows down four rows across. with everything going on in politics right now with the possible baron and everything everyone is floating in. purchasing right away gun stores all across the u.s. are reporting record sales just two weeks after the tragic shooting at the elementary school in newtown americans are scrambling to buy the same type of weapon that adam lanza used in the connecticut shooting plus high capacity magazines and a lot of them panic buying trigger it out of fear that the white house is out to ban the weapons but this time the words need to lead to action no eight ar fifteen for this customer all sold out at the store while prices on line have gone through the rules have been going for a thousand and fifteen hundred dollars to twenty five hundred three thousand dollars even in some cases it's just the most amazing gun buying spree i've ever

seen so many gun retailers now quite cynically refer to thieve ministrations ben talk as the obama gun stimulus that's how good it's been for their business so how do you go from a president with a tough gun control agenda to someone gun dealers call the greatest gun salesman in america manufacturers of semi-automatic rifles report that their market has grown thirty percent over the last four years states like north carolina iowa and you have seen a one hundred percent increase in gun sales over the same period in the wake of the tragedy in newtown one of the country's biggest ammunition suppliers said they sold more than three years worth of magazines in just three days although president obama himself has so far failed to act on his pledge to ban assault weapons his words have certainly provoked action just not the type he may have wanted for someone they say is against firearms. got a great job for us. really should be

a third term in order to sell even more weapons many dealers hype up the gun apocalypse scenario so the band there would be more the moment. to start not only start. but many of them don't actually see any drastic changes happening anytime soon after all any significant gun control measures and up in the past ultimately clashed with the second amendment of the constitution and were subsequently scrapped. daily we're going to check out. the case when even the strongest worries with prices poverty and online ripoffs topping the list of worst. spreading or stairway to pass coming up. moscow says that the refusal of serious k. opposition coalition to enter into dialogue with the government is a road to nowhere and will only result in further bloodshed at

a meeting with international peace and void to syria lakhdar brahimi foreign minister sergey lavrov reiterated that dialogue is the only means to resolve the conflict he's also stated on numerous occasions that although russia condemns methods the syrian army is using in the war it will take no part in regime change in his his response to the leader a serious key rebel group he demanded moscow's apologies for what he described as support for the president sat here for the bush to spend i understand that mr had tb is probably not very experienced in politics but he's looking to be a serious politician it is in his interest to hear our position from us and not from the media that sometimes distorts information so i'll repeat we're ready to talk to or position forces but we start from the premise that they should not only think about the rhone ambitions but also the fear. eight of the syrian people and if they think that russia could play

a role in the country's tragedy they should meet our representatives with their conditions actual notice but we also managed to speak exclusively with the foreign minister more official thoughts and assessments of the syrian crisis is coming up in that interview. g.m.t. . on coming up right the rise of opposition sentiment and events which triggered the public's me and of us series features the memories of those who covered russia's political landscape in twenty twelve. if you're from my generation or younger and you were born into the one percent that i have a lot of college debt i sure do you know the deal used to be that you paid a significant amount for education but in turn that gave you a much higher salary later but now the system works in reverse many young americans

studied very hard to not make any money at all around nine percent of americans with student loans have defaulted and at least nine but maybe up to eighteen percent are ninety days late with their payments given the situation the people at u.c. berkeley were nice enough to give away a million dollars in scholarships for everyone everyone that's an illegal immigrant yeah that's right if you're born in america then pay to jump the border and enjoy the red carpet education treatment the people who will be getting the scholarships are mostly the children of illegal immigrants who spent many of their formative years in america and yeah i can see the logic that could be hard for them to get an education when the when they aren't citizens but they came into the country illegally it isn't taxpayers jobs to help them but wait berkeley it's a private institution so i guess they can give out the money to whoever they want whenever they want however they want but berkeley management if you're watching this i would really appreciate if you chose some financial mercy to american

citizens it isn't like they don't need the help but that's just my opinion. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think. you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm john harvey welcome to the big picture. something. lies beneath. thousands of meters of ice and. that is aloof from men. but

dangerous even to those who keep it at a distance. if . you please. welcome back adoptions of russian children by u.s. citizens will no longer be possible after president clinton signed the bill

containing the amendment into law the measure is a tit for tat response to american sanctions against russian officials it sees its human rights violates his or further details on this diplomatic ground joined by not by r.t.c. . is this a balanced response from moscow do you think because it has split public opinion in russia. differently hostile public opinion in russia but the legislators are indeed as sure as sure that this is a definitely a way to go now you have to understand that to the law the so-called end to magnitsky law actually deals primarily a way of imposing travel and financial instructions on a number of american officials and persons who have committed crimes against russian citizens and one only part of the law actually bans he has the option of russian children by american citizens it has been in part inspired by the case of the russian toddler who was adopted by the american family in two thousand and nine

and died in their custody several months later after his father left him in a locked in the car in the blistering heat for nine hours the russian lawmakers feel that the american law system does not provide adequate adequate protection for the russian kids. and also does not punish those responsible for the deaths of russian kids for example do you have a loose father adoptive father walked away with a fine of course this act has also angered some in some of the russian public who believe that this limits the chances of russian children of finding a good home if not in russia than abroad but you also have to understand that russia has further legislation which is already working to improve the situation in orphanages and foster homes in russia and also to put further. improvements towards the situation concerning orphan kids in the country. this school was a tit for tat response wasn't it can you remind us of the origins of this

diplomatic spat. absolutely this is seen as a sort of retaliate of measure towards this so-called magnitsky act which was adopted in the united states just a couple of weeks ago there is a which entails a list of russian officials whom the united states believed to be involved in the case of said game of needs and now. puts a severe restrictions on the travel and freezes financial assets of the russian officials and question now the case of the game against key. involved the russian lawyer who was arrested on tax evasion charges and died while opening for limerick confinement his family friends as well as several human rights groups believe the charges against the game on tuesday were trumped up and he died because of severe beatings. now the the list itself is not has not been disclosed but again these two acts are seen as the latest developments in the diplomatic row which seems to not

to get any better to russia in the united states despite the whole affair with the reset button. ok we'll leave it there thanks very much arena and. the international monetary fund has warned germany against its austerity plans which include a tax hike and welfare cuts i.m.f. head christine legarde says to recover from the economic crisis europe needs germany as they can to balance artie's people over reports on why the burden is afraid people follow the regional trend. top of the european tree i don't think germans feel that they have nothing to grumble about a view a few in there in the park measuring public mood by telephone and face to face through thousands of interviews we've got a pretty good idea of what the people are thinking stats boffins have been gauging the country's mood to come up with the biggest moans of the year from your i'm free

germany at number five it's national debt it's better to give than to receive at this time of year but germans festive spirit run out long ago over chancellor merkel being a little too generous in bailing out countries like greece especially when it's their money. for is climate change the mayan world ending prophecy. may have turned out to be hocus pocus but germans remain seriously concerned about keeping mother earth ticking over for as long as possible number three is a very twenty first century problem getting ripped off online as we buying can shop on the web more than ever before the fear for germans is that someone else's netting their details on their cash. poverty came in second towards the end of the year it was revealed that around a quarter of europeans are at risk of living below the breadline germans watch with despair what's happening to the greeks and spanish images they struggle to shake

from their minds but the biggest worry for germans in twenty twelve was rising prices costs a rocketing everywhere from food to fuel and next year looks set to get even more pricey germany is a world leader in using renewable energy and over the coming year it's the consumer who will be paying to keep it that way with a shocking fifty percent increase in the subsidy paid towards renewable energy sources so that's what troubled germans this year but what are their fears for the future but i'm concerned maybe to find a good job because i want to do something different trying to thirteen minutes on sure what is happening in our economical crisis perhaps the euro is having another crisis but i actually love berlin that's why i want to stay here but if i can find

a job here so will have to try to get somewhere else i worry about everything job crisis everything is going down the hill let people i concerned about job security that they just that yeah the contracts are not secure in our that firms companies no longer have enough money and that people are just get fired. as with most situations in life when you ask people what their concerns are or what they want to see changed you do have to be prepared that their answers might not be exactly what you want to hear really one of the off the top promise was to legalize soft drugs i don't think legalizing soft trucks is one of the most immediate concerns we. should have split tensions. in two thousand and thirteen so what will germans be concerned about at the end of twenty thirteen even though they've less to worry about than most europeans it's unlikely that spending is home on other countries

will disappear within twelve months peter all of a r.t. berlin. a period of political challenges and a surge of public opinion that is how russians might possibly describe the act going yeah well today in our series looking at what happened in two thousand and twelve we did focus on the rising levels of political energy in russia. presidential election twenty we had three cameras up on this roof correspondents throughout moscow and i mean you come across lines throughout the night it was a great night wasn't a little color was right behind us was in it but but so one point when putin came out to show me like crowds the way cost to move the thousands and thousands of

people but also celebrating his victory one of the main points the unprecedented protests that took place up to that election work and protest rallies that never really feels like we're actually taking part in the event it was during one of the massive protests rallies in moscow on bolotnaya square that it really hit people the first time when i saw the crowd walking it's easy to park right next to ours another station and i realized how soon was people. really turned uncontrollable or was second and held then just as easily chaos rebirth of people trying to get the political point across in the past twelve months. the best way to do that would be a bag on your head and do some right be dancing in a cathedral the one thing that was important to get across when we were covering it is people's political flavors in this country the fact was that what they did was deeply offensive to a huge number of people not something that they consider when they were looking at

the case. when they made a press release about sour interview with president putin the first that he's ever given a third inauguration we see dozens and dozens of calls from international media representatives and they were all asking us just one question did he say anything about the pussy rights case nothing was out of this in fact the more challenging it is gauging the conversation would be of course not. a big list of my other wanted to hear about his thoughts on the ongoing syrian conflict also whether the polish one of the pussy riot punk but was indeed with calling site maybe too heavy that's an interesting comment to make about that ad what he thought about the russian opposition movement one of the big stories of the year the streets are available for protest that is for sure and i think it's good that people are conscious about politics well politics is not a big deal among most people here in this country but world is going to change let only be good for society and i think the the authorities reacted with relatively low.

trimmings and this is true even for specialists how a voice can produce several sounds it kwame's. the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from to be means believe not only animals but also surrounding objects like reverse forests and even stones of souls imitating the sounds they believe syrians can capture the power of nature.

through our special instruments that accompany the singing guinea says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says once there lived a poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed it on the course was revived as a name. amount. of so pitiful is because of the spirit of the horse came to his dream and said make an instrument from a tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings. and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i called the instrument again which means come back and this melody on the instrument is called craw you began. to fly as one of the most famous groups in the republic their next goal is to tour

peru and they say for you are peons it's difficult to pick up and sing so i asked them to teach me and see if i can do it. cheerily the senior. shero you shared that was sure to say carried out who was to take gara oh. but now it is the only and moody part of the song and not the actual throat singing which i wouldn't even dare try to repeat. so maybe you have to be born here to be able to sing like this i thought so until i met mall she looks like it to vini and i don't even speak their language but she is from japan. most s. too far in mind that she planned from two hundred years ago until soppy here she's

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